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BERLIN (AP) ” Alfred Neven DuMont, a prominent German newspaper publisher for several decades, has died. He was 88.Neven DuMont’s company, the M. DuMont Schauberg group, said he died on Saturday. It gave no further details in a…

MOSCOW (AP) ” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov needs to explain why 89 politicians from 17 European countries have been banned from entering Russia and confirm their names, an opposition lawmaker said Sunday in a formal inquiry.Dmitry…

Google executives will probably spend a good chunk of time at an annual developers conference talking about a cardboard contraption that turns smartphones into virtual-reality goggles, even as the Web company rolls out new technology…

Sometimes people ask me where I stand on economic policy. Am I a free-marketer or an interventionist? I tell them that I’m an identificationist.In statistics, “identification” just means separating two groups in order to tell if…

First-home buyers are increasingly turning to parents to get into Auckland’s rampant property market.Home prices are soaring by up to $1,000 a day in some suburbs and Barfoot & Thompson sales data this month showed the average Auckland…

Watching the latest episode in our non-debate about superannuation has been like watching a car crash in slow motion. You can see what’s going to happen but there’s nothing you can do to stop it.The fiscal and electoral forces at…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ” The accused in the FIFA scandal are easy to spot: globe-trotting executives charged with diverting millions meant to build the game to their personal accounts. Those who feel victimized aren’t as obvious: Youth…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ” Turkey’s banking regulator says a state fund has seized a bank associated with a movement led by the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, which authorities have accused of attempting to destabilize the government.The…

The world will be a poorer place without John Nash, one of the pioneers of game theory, who died on Saturday at 86 in a car crash along with his wife.Most Nash retrospectives (and the movie about him) focus considerable attention…

Apple just poured more fuel on speculation that it’s working on a car.Confronted by a shareholder on Wednesday at a rare public forum over where Apple is looking to invest its cash, Jeff Williams, Apple’s senior vice president of…